Supreme Court Advocate Compares Using AI In Legal Practice To Working With A ‘Brilliant Associate Who’s Also Schizophrenic’

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The technology is there. It’s usable now. You have to guard against hallucinations, but it has made any one lawyer immensely more powerful and productive. You can generate drafts of stuff that would have taken hours, in minutes.

— A Supreme Court practitioner, in anonymous comments given to the National Law Journal, concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in their legal practice. The SCOTUS advocate went on to note that AI can now perform most tasks that are typically assigned to associates, but cautioned, “It’s like having a brilliant associate who’s also a schizophrenic. It’s bad for the associates because we will need fewer of them.”

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